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A digital flat share in the middle of the pandemic. Everyone is always reachable. Love and hate are close together. A comic nightmare by Malte Wirtz.

In her documentary, Mračnikar formulates a political urgency in a personal way: What happens when your mother tongue is taken away from you?

A lonely hostel hides more than just silence - a secret that needs to be uncovered.

"Girls can't play soccer" - Pauline, Chayenne, Eriona and Liv prove that this is obviously nonsense in this documentary series.

Climber Adam Ondra, best in his field, is known for his fearless, record-breaking ascents. An intimate portrait explores his life beyond the headlines

A movie about people who have no chance but still try to make the best of it. And about the price they have to pay for it.

Lale creates a digital clone to escape the stressful world of fashion. UNCANNY ME explores identity, technology and the nature of reality.

IT WORKS II shows the lives of three people with disabilities - grown up and self-determined, 20 years after the first film.

To document the imment conflict in eastern Ukraine, photographer Pierre Crom traveled to the Donbass in 2014.

This documentary shows the consequences of the 2008 war for displaced Georgians in a refugee settlement and their struggle to find a new home.

Gerhard goes all in: He leaves his previous life behind for the Thai girl Amy. Romance and thriller begin to intertwine.

Before the war, one of Kyiv's hottest subject was one of Trump’s cronies turning a masterpiece concert hall into a shopping mall.

An integration course teaches people the finer points of Viennese culture in Chinese, Arabic, Russian and German.

"Don’t become like my father" - a credo that will drive Alex, a man on the run from himself, to the edge of reason.

Props play a crucial role in every movie, yet they are rarely consciously noticed - the big and small things on the set.

Somewhere in the Monchique mountains of Portugal, the Fridayhappiness Associação balances sustainable living with their economic lifeline.

The tragic story of an artist who was torn between passion and obsession and died under mysterious circumstances.

About the missing and the found. About the silent and the roaring. About cuddling and sneezing. Six stories about fathers.

After the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, Valentyn decided to become politically active and run for city council in his home town.

In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.

Acclaimed Lebanese director Simon El Habre paints a vivid portrait of Beirut post-Civil War, highlighting the impact of the 2020 port explosion.

Is it fact or is it fiction? A documentary-fiction hybrid about the Red Mountain near Trier and the people who dwell there.

Three solo entertainers share a passion for entertaining. For them, it is not just a profession, but a vocation to which they subordinate everything.

After England and Wales, Rüdiger Sünner explores the spiritual side of Scotland's breathtaking landscapes in the second part of his trilogy.

To live inclusion and not just to play it is the declared goal of the Theater Rambazamba from Berlin.

Looking to breathe new life into the sport of rugby in Germany, a man has launched an inclusive rugby team.

A chance examination delivers the frightening diagnosis of brain aneurysm. The director himself documents the months leading up to the operation.

In a former German coal region, a mine gives way to a ghost train, including undead miners.

How is life as a gay in the Swabian province? An intimate insight into a hitherto unknown terrain between church and Stammtisch.

A new start to a better life? Forty Germans on welfare fly to Mallorca to do internships.

Pittiplatsch, star of GDR children's television has a dark secret. Pitti was an avant-garde artist and informer for the state security service.

Self-determination, women's rights, taboos: ME TIME focuses on child-free life and expectations of mothers.

A powerful film about the struggle of a naive boy with good intentions in the harsh environment of Irans drug stronghold on the Island of Hormuz.

Poetic film essay which conveys a sense of the lived spirituality of the British Isles.

A striking documentary by renowned photojournalist David Klammer about protesters fighting to stop the clear-cutting at the Dannenröder Forest.

A compelling exploration of the complexities of American life, history, and society through the lens of the unique and fascinating sport drag racing.

Ahmet, a champion boxer and professional soldier, starts taking acting lessons. On stage he comes face to face with his own internal battles.

Discover the hidden world of the former meat factory in Vienna's Sonnwendviertel through the lens of filmmaker Dariusz Kowalski.

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.

To honor the archaic lifestyles of his ancestors and to preserve tradition, Liêm spends several days each year in the Vietnamese jungle.

In this unusual time travel film with a steampunk touch, the protagonists have to escape a time loop, with 90's Pop-Star Jasmin Wagner and Götz Otto.

The "German indie machine" Malte Wirtz turns to horror and does it so successfully that the audience left the cinema hall in fear.

A senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.

The merciless fighting between militias in the region around Mount Lebanon ended in reprisals against civilians.

In a small German town, local journalist Eric investigates the drug scene on his own initiative and at great personal risk.

Young people from the former border region use smartphones to film stories from their personal environment about the topic of German division.

Compassionate mumblecore-style drama about a young woman's struggles with the expectations placed on her by her partner and friends.

This documentary follows full-contact athlete Lukas Kroiss on his cinematic path to the K1 European Championship title.

Victims of the repressive system in the former East German state give powerful testimony about the cruetly of the dehumanizing regime.

Survivors can also be victims in countries where injustice was the norm. Their compelling testimonies are featured in this insightful documentary.

Is homeopathy a hoax or medicine? Here, homeopaths are allowed to share their very different views.

Marc is a surfer and lives his life one day at a time. But after many strokes of fate, he dreams of turning back time, and starting all over again.

A funeral director who aspired to be an entertainer is now the last escort of people in Berlin who have died in solitude.

New spin on the found footage genre: three friends spend a week in a haunted castle to investigate supernatural phenomena.

Globalization, and rural exodus: despite a gloomy outlook, the people still living in Aracà , a small Italian village, are bravely facing the future.

One of the biggest taboos in society is the rehabilitation of sex offenders. This film takes the offender perspective.

Christoph Schlingensief's answer to "Pop Idol" was "Freakstars 3000".

The shocking story of the sea rescue ship Lifeline, which was denied entry to a safe port for months.

This film places acts of resistance against National Socialism and current struggles in a historical continuity.

A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.

Housing is a human right. How can we guarantee housing in the increasingly difficult real estate markets in Europe's major cities?

Volksbühnen actor and director Herbert Fritsch and celebrity cast transform the classic Hamlet tale into a hilarious, multimedia fever dream.

Growing up in a rural idyll on his father's farm, teenager Johannes searches for his place in life.

Driven by their obsessions and fears, three Berliners lose themselves in the urban jungle.

The focus is on the relationship between the two directors Bella and Andreas, who explore themes of love, sex, friendship and desire.

The penguins encounter Swiss alpine cows, swim in the river, walk leisurely through the city center... they are everywhere. An adventure begins.

Jakob Fisch confesses to a murder he did not commit. Police psychologist Dr. Alea Anzu then tries to convict him of lying.

A film about victory and defeat, on the chessboard and in life, and a cinematographic reflection on the struggle for female self-determination.

Whether in Delhi, Pune, Mumbai or Kolkata, street vendors from very different backgrounds sell the country's most popular drink, masala chai.

A position-finding exercise: where does feminism stand today in relation to reproduction?

Daniel Spoerri is one of the most important representatives of object art, co-founder of the artist group Nouveau Réalisme and inventor of Eat-Art.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

Unemployment... Helmut and Sieglinde are over fifty and already considered unemployable. What about young people trying to find work?

Who are the (presumably) Eastern European panhandlers working the streets? Filmmaker Ulli Gladik finds out.

The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.

This work investigates a controversial mass performance from the late Yugoslav era – the Youth Day celebration (“slet”) in 1987.

The doc about the cult surrounding a Soviet physicist Boris Zolotov was awarded the ARTE documentary award.

We accompany a Roma family in Macedonia in their laborious everyday life, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism.

Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer.

Filmmaker Erik Lemke (BERLIN EXCELSIOR) portrays his great-aunt Evelin: she was born a man, in a country that no longer exists.

Follow Jörg Meuthen, candidate for Germany's right-wing party AFD, on his election tour 2016.

To prevent the ecological collapse of our planet, these 8 courageous people envision a new kind of agriculture.

In northern Syria, an anti-hierarchical, multi-ethnic model of democracy was launched in the Rojava region under the leadership of the Kurds.

From an early age, Sebastian had to be self-reliant. This film follows him through three stages of his life on the path to discovering his true self.

A visit to four exceptionally isolated places and communities that never cease to amaze even the people who live there.

The weather goes completely crazy in a small house. Yes, in the house.

A naïve New Yorker retreats to his dead grandfather's summer cottage (datsche in German) but instead of peace he finds Adam, a refugee in hiding.

Iris P. was an undercover investigator who maintained close friendships and had intimate relationships with the people she spied on.

Susan is a glamorous train wreck: a delusional drug-addict and psychotic who compares herself to the likes of Maria Callas and Romy Schneider.

"Clowns without Borders" bring a bit of joy to the refugee camp in Moria, Lesbos.

Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with Lebanon’s turbulent past.

What happens when your girlfriend suddenly has a penis?

Mark and Antonia have a long-distance relationship and are taking a joint holiday in Paris. Their last visit was a long while back. How will it go?

Max "Adlersson" Herzberg from Dresden, 20 years old, has over 300,000 subscriptions on YouTube and reviews knives and gangsta rap fan boxes.

30 years after the end of the civil war in Lebanon, over 17,000 people who disappeared are still unaccounted for. An unnamed artist searches them.

In some of West Africa's traditional societies, mental illness and epilepsy are still seen as demonic possession.

A sequence of everyday-scenarios develops in synchronisation across what seems like a regular night in the city.

Cordt Hammer, a journalist, is possibly the last man on earth. He seems to be in the midst of a feminine revolution. Is this a dream?

The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years.

“What the hell is happening to my country?” After Trump was elected, filmmaker Susanne Brandstaetter investigates the growing divide in the USA.